KATHMANDU: The State Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) has barred journalists from attending their meeting today.

Chairperson of the Committee Shashi Shrestha told journalists to leave the meeting, said a journalist who had gone to attend the meeting.

This would be the second time that journalists were barred from attending an HoR meeting.

Earlier, they were barred from attending a meeting at the time when Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) had demanded that lawmakers amend or revise ‘anti-press provisions’ in the Civil Code Act and Criminal Code Act that came into force on August 17.

The FNJ observed that some provisions related to offence against the state, public peace, defamation and right to privacy were meant to tighten the noose and curtail freedom of expression and press freedom through draconian laws.